and told us the inconveniences which would fall on the nation by want of a supply, should not ly at his door; that we must not revive any discord betwixt the Lords and us; that he himself had examined the accounts, and found every penny to have been employed in the war; and he recommended the Scotch union.  The Garroway party appeared with the usual vigour, but the country gentlemen appeared not in their true number the first day:  so, for want of seven voices, the first blow was against them.  When we began to talk of the Lords, the King sent for us alone, and recommended a rasure of all proceedings.  The same thing you know that we proposed at first.  We presently ordered it, and went to tell him so the same day, and to thank him.  At coming down, (a pretty ridiculous thing!) Sir Thomas Clifford carryed Speaker and Mace, and all members there, into the King’s cellar, to drink his health.  The King sent to the Lords more peremptoryly, and they, with much grumbling, agreed to the rasure.  When the Commissioners of Accounts came before us, sometimes we heard them pro forma, but all falls to dirt.  The terrible Bill against Conventicles is sent up to the Lords; and we and the Lords, as to the Scotch busyness, have desired the King to name English Commissioners to treat, but nothing they do to be valid, but on a report to Parliament, and an act to confirm.  We are now, as we think, within a week of rising.  They are making mighty alterations in the Conventicle Bill (which, as we sent up, is the quintessence of arbitrary malice), and sit whole days, and yet proceed but by inches, and will, at the end, probably affix a Scotch clause of the King’s power in externals.  So the fate of the Bill is uncertain, but must probably pass, being the price of money.  The King told some eminent citizens, who applyed to him against it, that they must address themselves to the Houses, that he must not disoblige his friends; and if it had been in the power of their friends, he had gone without money.  There is a Bill in the Lords to encourage people to buy all the King’s fee-farm rents; so he is resolved once more to have money enough in his pocket, and live on the common for the future.  The great Bill begun in the Lords, and which makes more ado than ever any Act in this Parliament did, is for enabling Lord Ros, long since divorced in the spiritual court, and his children declared illegitimate by Act of Parliament, to marry again.  Anglesey and Ashly, who study and know their interests as well as any gentlemen at court, and whose sons have marryed two sisters of Ros, inheritrixes if he has no issue, yet they also drive on the Bill with the greatest vigour.  The King is for the Bill:  the Duke of York, and all the Papist Lords, and all the Bishops, except Cosins, Reynolds, and Wilkins, are against it.  They sat all Thursday last, without once rising, till almost ten at night, in most solemn and memorable debate, whether it should be read the second time, or thrown out.  At last, at the question, there